Modern Vespa

The only thing worse than road rash is...?

Bad - Only having time to eat a hot dog from the sketchy-looking lunch cart guy.

Worse - Having 2 because you were starving.

Worst - Hearing about a hot dog recall 45 minutes later.

Everyone already knows that only the leftover nasty bits go into making hot dogs to begin with. What *the hell* fell into the hot dog vat at the hot dog factory that made them say "OMG, that's disgusting, we need a recall!"

Can anyone else come up with something worse than road rash?

Having electrodes attatched to your genitals and then being flogged senseless with a knotted rope?

Having one of the hottest curries ever and getting food poisoning from it.

While on vacation...

Or childbirth. Give me road rash anyday over that again.

Being stung in the balls by a wasp.

Bill xxx

How did said wasp get to the gonads... It was a trouser creeper wasp?

In Argentina and Chile, they eat a lot of hot dogs. They also eat a lot of the parts we make hotdogs out of, so what do they put in the hot dogs down there? Telling your wife you got the clap from her sister would rank right up there with road rash, and may actually lead to it or something even worse involving stab or bullet wounds.

Great...thanks for reminding me about that...12 years old at the summer cottage on the lake in New Hampshire, walk around back & step on an underground Yellowjacket nest...queue the swarm of pissed off bees up the pantleg! And I was allergic.

Hitting yourself hard in the balls after Being stung in the balls by a wasp.

The day about 10 yrs ago that I changed the oil in my truck wearing sandals. Was not aware that my foot was on a fire ant mound until it was too late. Needless to say the hot oil that was drained did not go for recycling.

4mm kidney stone that gets stuck and has to be surgically removed

I think I see a trend developing here.
Is this turning into one of those things where everything listed is followed by "...in the balls."? (Except Miss froggie's childbearing experience of course.)

Childbirth... In the balls.

Reminds me of how fortune cookies are always "...in bed" after the fortune.

Not having a Vespa is worse than road rash.

I hate getting childbirthed in the balls.

Not that I'm doubting the pain of bringing a child into the world...but not fa nuttin...you *never* hear a guy say 'I think I might like another kick in the balls some day'. Just sayin.

Hmmm. I lived (survived)through such a story....

Neighbors leaving their trash cans outside your house.

Clogged gutters and a pukey cat. But seriously there is nothing worse than road rash....nothing.

Possibly the kidney infection I had in my 30s.

I was writhing in pain, projectile vomiting, swearing, crying and pissing blood all at the same time. It was totally epic.

I told my sister, "Don't worry, I'm not dying..because it hurts too much. I'll worry when it stops hurting..then we should worry.


I'm thinking road rash is about the same.

This is why I only have one of my own. I learned that lesson. "Never forget" my motto. Lol

Been there, only it was moving e-v-e-r s-o s-l-o-w-l-y so they decided to just keep me in the hospital on a constant IV drip and heavy-duty pain meds around the clock until it passed. The meds would wear off before the next dose was due, so I had (literally) blinding pain every three hours.

Eight days later they let me go home, although it was only in my bladder.

"Catch it in this filter" they told me.

In this case, luckily, the anticipation was worse than the event.

Damned thing looked like a lentil.

Spending a week on a choir tour bus with poison oak on my balls and up my (Is there a way to put this delicately? Nah, probably not.) ass crack.

How did this happen? Well, right before tour I went camping. In the middle of the night I had to go out of the tent and cop a squat. I felt something tickling my nether regions, but didn't think too much of it at the time. I definitely thought about it later.

Getting my foot crushed when I was hit by a car while riding. The foot swelled so much and so fast that it split the skin wide open. I had to clean and dress the wounds every day for the twelve weeks it took to heal.

This was the second-most painful experience of my life, after the kidney stone. How do I know this? The pain wasn't quite blinding.

When the doc asked me to put the pain on a scale of 1 to 10, I said "If a kidney stone is a ten, this is a nine." He got it.

Not much worse than a good case of road rash...

Back in the bike racing days I was racing in the NM State Championship road race - about 35 miles into it (100 miles total); On a speedy downhill (probably 45+ mph) was pushed into a crack in the road and front wheel got stuck - did a complete endo over the front and landed on my butt, holding the bike up in the air so it didn't get damaged (I was a poor bike racer, what can I say...) Slid probably 100+ feet on cheese-grater like pavement and shredded both butt cheeks pretty bad.

Had to ride in the support vehicle for the next 65+ miles laying on my belly with blood kinda oozing all over. Then it got fun!

2 hours after the race finished (one of my teammates won! yay!), we packed up for an already planned trip from Albuquerque to Quincy, Illinois for a major stage race and since I couldn't sit, I had to lay on my belly again in the back of our team truck for a non-stop 18 hour drive to the race where we stayed with a host family when not on our bikes.

I had just enough skin left in my butt crack (sorry for the visual ) that I could still sit on a bicycle seat so racing was OK other than the bloody bike shorts every stage. I literally couldn't sit on a chair again for almost 4 weeks - everywhere I went I had to either stand up or lay on my belly.

Yes, road rash sucks!

Side note - I won the stage race with the help of my teammates and was announced as being an international rider from the country of New Mexico ... Gotta love the midwest sometimes.

Desi B>

brand new scooter and then a week of non-stop rain?

Go cart crash caused severed urethrea at age 18. The doc in the ER is coming at me with this huge gauge needle and I am like "what are you doing with that... Can we talk about it first?!!" I feel like several years of young person invulnerability feelings were stolen that day.

First semester of Junior College.

Evening before first classes ever.

Before taking LSD, decide to eat 2 AM/PM Hot dogs.

Take Said LSD.

Proceed to have worst food poisoning ever

Spend 8 hours in very small dorm bathroom excreting from all ends, tripping balls, regretting life.

Second place - an Epidural shot. I could hear/feel the needle scraping across my spine. I would take road rash over either of those. 8)

Having road rash and then falling on said road rash and ripping off the huge scab that was there 25mph ago.

Nothing like it...

Ive done this

One of my latest; try this one on for size

Now lets talk about the worst part. After insurance, $4500. Come into my parlor said the spider(healthcare) to the fly(me).

that sounds fantastic ..... where do you go for said procedure

Getting crabs from your Dad would be worse than road rash....

That depends. Do you want a government, religious or non-religious service provider?

Open heart surgery, quadruple bypass ain't a lot of fun, especially when they make you get up and out of bed 2 days after the op. now thats painful.

not as painful as the 2 separate kidney stones i had one year apart. my mate morphine was the best friend I could have.

Riding my Yamaha FZR600 into the back of a parked car at 60 MPH, is not recommended for pain relief.

I was going to say having haemorrhoids banded, but then I read some of the other posts and changed my mind!!

MRSA In my hand was a little itchy for a couple of days.

A cyst in my groin and my butt cheek was a little tender.

Root Canal is just a little uncomfortable but being stung in the balls by an angry wasp felt personal.

Trying to ride in a straight line and brush the little bastard off my groin was a bit of a challenge.

Bill x

"Never forget" would totally make an awesome tattoo...for your son/daughter. lol You could use it to explain to them when he/she is older why he/she is an only child.

ps - sorry it hurt so much.

Having a tattoo is a bloody doddle.

It didn't hurt enough.

Bill x